Naturi Naughton Reflects On 3LW Exit, Reinventing Herself In TV & Film, New Lifetime Movie, + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up his way up with Angela. Yeah, I'm here,
Mayo's here, right, and the Terry not in Lewis is here.
Don't forget to Lewis, so use my married name.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I've married.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Now we definitely got to note like and make sure
you remember the Lewis part. Okay, thank you, thank you,
which we had to. How do you feel about you're
about to be a grandmother possibly?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my gosh, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Everybody has been hitting me up a grandmother in TV.
Let's get on because no literally they've been like, so,
you're gonna be the youngest grandma on TV and the
baddest one.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Okay, Katasha is you know?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But I just realized, you know, him and Dane they're
about to When I saw that, I was like, Lord Jesus,
now I gotta deal with you having a baby.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now I have a character. But like that though, Tasha
might be like.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I mean, I'm very maternal, and I think Tasha has
always been a good mother, that's one thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
She would probably take well, I mean, she's had her moments.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Kids in the Yeah, let's explore that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, Well, I mean I just mean just well, good
is dependent on what your lifestyle is. But I'm a
good ass the right way to do the wrong things,
and at least I protect my kids. If you're going
to be doing criminal things, at least do it correctly, right, Like,
go kick your father right now that I did not
want you. I want to put that on record. Tasha
(01:24):
tried to stop him, but I just got there a
minute too late.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But yeah, So and before we get into this new
movie Abducted at an HPCU, a Black Girl Missing movie,
just we got to tie up some things with Ghosts first,
because it's been ten years and years, yes, decade, Like
it hasn't been that long.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, that's what fans keep saying to me. They were like,
So when the next week coming out with I'm like,
we're ending a show that went on for an entire decade,
Like the cultures forever changed. People had power party, Tasha
became like I mean, people dressed up at Tasha and
Ghost on Halloween. Yeah, it was a thing, and it's
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so much you know, so many people that really loved
and committed to this show.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So I just feel like blessed that I lived.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You know, I said, literally everywhere, especially in Brooklyn. I mean,
I'm in Brooklyn and they just be like what. Sometimes
they just hit me war up tash and I'd be
like shout, oh okay, so I'm notary, but okay yeah.
And then I realized, like, I'll take it because it's
loved so embedded, and think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
In real life. You know, I had two kids, got married. Yeah,
while all that was going on.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So much life has happened in ten years. I was
a single woman. I did not have any children, and
now I have all that and you know home. I
just feel blessed because, honestly, the show gave me agency
as a female, as a woman starting my own you know,
production company now like I'm directed. I just feel like
it gave me a space to be more independent, and
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I was when I started Power. I was a nervous
little girl, to be honest, and then having children, becoming
a mother and also a wife, gave me a chance
to see like, oh no, I'm strong enough, I can
do this and I don't have to be afraid. I
can just be myself. And I think that's now what
I'm finally doing at forty.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yes, please, you started from music, I did.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know a lot of people sometimes forget that a
lot of people do.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What was acting always on your agenda?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Always really always as a child, I knew. I literally
used to tell my friends and I remember in third
grade we had like a school play. I was Dorothy
and the Whiz and I was like yeah, and I
saw the Bodyguard and I remember I was like, that's
going to be me. Whitney Houston was my inspiration. I
always knew that music is also a vehicle to tell stories.
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So if you can do music and singing and all that,
I love music, I was like, okay, I can be
an actress. So singing and acting was always on the agenda.
Now the producing and directing was something I discovered over time.
But I knew that this was my purpose and calling.
So I'm just like, thank god I got to.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Do it, I know. I mean, look at how long
you've been in this business too.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, that's a whole you think ten years a long
time for power. Do y'all know how long Nauri naw
and Lewis has been in this business? Like twenty four years,
twenty four. I got a record deal with Three of
W in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's actually it's twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So at the end of this year, like right at
the top of twenty twenty five, it's gonna be my
twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Crazy huge.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I've been through a lot, kicked out a girl group,
came back, went to college Pollege, so I've been through
a whole Like.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
With that group, it could have been over after that. No,
it really could have could have like that could have
been there. That took some time, that story, but look
at how you've came back even stronger.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I'm from Jersey. We don't play these games. I'm
from Eastern shoutout to Jersey. But at the end of
the day, the bounce back is because I was raised
that way my mother, my father, my father and rest
in peace, and the way I was raised honestly like
changed I think my life because if I didn't have
that support and that infrastructure from a Caribbean dad and
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a mother from the South to tell me like your
dreams are real and you can do anything. I don't
know if I would still be here. I could have
been like depressed and on drugs or something after three
w but they told me, you know what, after I
got kicked out, they were like, it's okay, You're gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
There's so much more you can do.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And you know, I love how you can talk about
things that happened back then now and not feel the
emotion that you felt because think about at first, it's
so hard to be like I was kicked out. Even
saying that is not an easy thing when it's.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know what, that's true.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I don't think I used to because we've interviewed so
many times before, and now it's like I was like
I got get a group, Thank y'all.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It was meant to be at the time.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Sometimes you can't see the wing over those bumps and
not knowing that this is a part of the journey.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeahture something that needed to happen so you could get
someone else a.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Men to that, And now I'm like cool with Adrian.
I feel like to your point, I'm just cool with Adrian.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'm not even a girl by replaced. They tried, they tried.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I don't even know some of the iterations.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, I was like it was the end of that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But that is just a lesson for everybody listening. You know,
sometimes things can happen and it could feel like that's
the end, the right but to see, like how when
you reflect years later. And that's why I always say
when things are going bad, I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna
get through this. It's okay to like deal with that
at that time, but know that it's gonna get better later.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And you actually, yeah, and if you didn't go through that,
even for you and your career and your life, like
I know, both of y'all like on and off this,
you know, the microphone. It's interesting to see people reinvent themselves.
Remember that you have the power to reinvent, reincarnate, come back.
It's like you just have to use your creative, you know,
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inner strength and say okay. Because a lot of people,
even with notories, they was like, how are you gonna
play Little Kim? You the girl from their w And
then I did it. And then after little Kim is like,
how are you gonna be taucha? No, I did it,
like and and you know, I just think you have
to just continue you look at your career. I mean,
he was saying notorious with me people a little fun
fact he was in a movie.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Fun fact.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'll never forget that. And every I mean it's everybody
in the streets.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
We was in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It was like one of my first scenes is little
Kim like doing a battle and I was like, oh
shoot this main o And I had so much respect
for you then, so big ups you for again continue
to reinvent and recreate your career.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, this is my guy right here. Let's get into
this abduct. And also I do want to say condolence
is because thank you. I know your father recently passed amazing, Like,
first of all, I've got a chance to hang out
with your dad is amazing, and you're so close to
your family and I do feel like that does attribute
a lot to the strength and perseverance and the discipline
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that you have. Thank you, not to them for doing
such a great job.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Thank you the naught in the Nawton legacy.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And he got to see, you know, come to the wedding.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
My dad was so happy to walk me down the aisle.
Like all the things that a father wants to do,
he did it. My child was born, both of them,
like I you know, he may not be here in
physical but he's with me every single day in spirits,
So thank.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You, And I know he loves seeing too. Take care
of you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The wait Oh yeah, that's why when he handed me over,
he was like you my daughter.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, but he knew that too was the perfect husband
for me.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Not the one, not the two, but two. Hey, hey,
all right, let's talk about abducted it in HBCU. Yes,
Girl Missing movie. I did have a chance to watching
MANA was watching. Yeah, take the screen like this morning,
so oh did you?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I can't wait for people to see this.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I haven't and I'm literally like gonna watch it with
the fans, So everybody pull up. I might do a
little screening party on Saturday, July twentieth. I'm gonna talk
to you and figure out where we can do it
in Brooklyn, and we should do like a little screen
because I want people to I want to watch it
with the fans for the first time on Lifetime.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Make sure y'all tune in on There a.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Lot of reasons it's important, even though because I know
a first man, it was like, is this a true story?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's but it's based on true events for really, because
it happens, It happens, it has happened in different ways.
Black girls go missing every day, multiple times a day.
But particularly what was interesting about this is that they
are targeting some you know, people are targeting young women
on HBCUs or on campuses of colleges, and then we
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just assume, oh, you know, she probably just ran away
or she just decided to drop out of school. Like
when it's a black girl, we suddenly discard them or
just don't even put the same resources behind looking for them.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And that's unacceptable, even the way that media approaches it. Yeah,
and of course it's a tragedy when any any girl
goes missing, any young girl goes missing. But there is
certainly a difference in when a young white girl is
missing then when a young black girl is missing. Everbody
knows that the longer it takes for them to actually,
you know, decide, because sometimes they won't even say a
(10:05):
person is missing. They're like, well, we have to wait.
Let's see if she ran away, let's see if she's
with her boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, and how long do we wait?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like what are those The longer you wait, the worst
the outcome could potentially.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Be exactly Well, that's why you know this movie and
what Lifetime is doing. And Garcel Bouvet, who executive produced it,
this is actually the second a black girl missing story,
so this is not a new topic, but Lifetime has
really made it a point to bring attention to it
in a way. We're going to do a series of films.
And when they asked me to start in this and
(10:36):
I remember reading it and I was like, you know,
I need to do this because a I play the
school advisor and counselor who actually finds this young girl.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I go out and basically save her.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But we need to show that more people need to
get involved, even if it's not your immediate family. Like
if you see something, say something, if you know something
looks sketchy, don't be afraid to speak up. I mean
within reason obviously, you know, be safe out here. People
don't say Tasha told me to do it. But abducted
is a real dive into an issue in a topic
that is happening, and we have to do better at
(11:10):
saving these young girls, particularly black girls who go missing.
Because it's crazy the numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
What did you learn from this? Brol too, because you
know it's scary. Also, you have a daughter. I do,
And so for anybody that you know has we all
have young girls who are close to us, whether it's family,
whether it's not, whatever type of profession that we're in.
What are some things that you learned?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I learned actually statistically, well, first off, I didn't know
that so much of this is happening like this the
honestly the movie dives into sex trafficking, right and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I didn't know, and even me and two were talking
about this. My husband like, dang, is this really like
it's going down? But apparently it's really really going down,
And obviously in many other households this has become a
thing and it's happening the discussion. But the fact that
thirty six percent of missing girls are black girls, but
only fourteen percent of the population are black women or
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black girls, it's crazy, like, how do we make up
almost forty percent? And that was something I learned, and
also learning how the process of luring these girls, like
I didn't know, they actually mold and groomed them into
trafficking and how to behave and selling their bodies and
they have no choice. So that was something I learned
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through just really reading the script and doing this movie
with the director Delmar Washington. He directed it, and it
was beautiful because I was like, Okay, we're telling a
true story from real facts, even though the story obviously
is fictionalized and written but the problem is this isn't
a fiction subject subject.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So I learned a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So those are some of the things I learned in
the proportions of how many stay missing and go unfound
compared to their white counterparts.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
What I'm glad that you've talked about is also the
grooming aspect. I think sometimes people can see women like
on the streets selling their bodies or escorts or whatever
and think that they chose.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, like that's just what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh yeah, she's just a ho. She's just this, she's
just that. And the truth is a lot of times,
like when you watch this, you'll see what can happen
to bring someone to that point where they feel like
they're trapped in a situation so they have to do
it rugged, which does happen right where yep, and forced
into it because sometimes people think, if she want to
do that, let do it, like yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So they almost blame you.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well, that's her fault, is she always dressed in a
certain way or she too Like your body is not
a weapon. You shouldn't be you know, it shouldn't be
used against you who you are. Your blackness should not
be a scar or tool to say, well, she's just
another black girl. They're not gonna care, like, let's not
do that, but let's actually defend and stand up for
these young girls.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It feels like part of your agenda now is also
to make sure you do work that's important and impactful.
So can we talk about that?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And Julie gets me, y'all, this is my real friend.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
We be having carry go and jerk chicken at the
grill in real life. Shout out to negrills. No, but seriously,
I want to do things that matter. So whether and
people always asking when you go to music again, when
are you gonna do? I want to do the things
that if it doesn't matter, if it doesn't feel purposeful,
it doesn't feel intentional, I'm probably not gonna do it.
I'm not just like, oh, I'm gonna put something out
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just to say I can sing it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
People know.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
If you know I could sing cool. If you don't,
that's okay. You'll find out whether I do a musical.
I might be on Broadway next spring.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I could be.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Doing you know, a television I could be hosting. It
could be another film. I can direct this story and
not even starring it. I don't want people to only
attach me to the things that they think are salacious
or sexy. Obviously power is beautiful, but now it's time
to do things that are powerful. In when you watch it,
you will feel either empowered, you'll feel inspired, you will
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feel like I gotta do something with conviction. And those
are the things like that. I'm doing another project soon
and we'll talk about it. But it's just things like
know about homelessness and just things that are real. Abortion,
I want to tackle real issues. I directed my first
short I think I was telling about it called three
through three, and I completed this short about a young
girl struggling with the mental health aspect of an abortion
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just twenty minutes. It's a short film. I directed it,
I wrote it, and you know, I just speak to.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
For a moment on that direct it and wrote it.
Yes'm and produced it with my husband.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
When I tell you I love this like this is
this is this is notori. This is powerful.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh thank you girl. This is the real powers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
No, shout out to Take Too Entertainment. That's our production company.
Take To Entertainment produced three to three. So again it's
just talking about and similar to abducted and an HBCU
a subject that people would be afraid, like, why would
you do your first short film about a young girl
with abortion? Burgundy Baker stars in it. From the shy
shout out to Burgundy, She's so good in this. John
(16:00):
Clarence Stewart, who's in p Valley, I got a great
Vanessael Callaway.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I mean I just called my.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Friends and they answered and yes, yeah, May and I
might be calling you, like come through with my next film,
you know, because you know you got the look.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You're looking good these days. I heard you are ready
to talk about he be working out. I see you,
may know, I see you. You got your rest.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You know, he looks well rested.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You should do for him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He should do a movie about being a one woman
man based on fiction Priest horrible.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You know how want to let me think about you?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You got the gloves on everything.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I'm like the one woman man idea. Yeah, we could
get one woman practice.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm trying to practice that in real life.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Okay, so then maybe yeah, So I'm gonna get you.
I'm gonna work.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We're gonna get your acting coach, so you can let's go.
All right, I'm ready for you.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Out with too so you could.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, that's when you come over, come to the cookout.
What it's like.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I got some people for you where life can be
when like look at you into having your production companies together,
and I know he's always pushing you, you know, to
go further. Y'all push each other, we do. How is
it working with your husband?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Oh my gosh, it's good.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And also sometimes it can be annoying sometimes at night
in bed, like I know he's probably annoyed with me.
I'll be talking a lot, but I'll be like, Babe,
I had this idea. Sometimes I wake up like, babe,
I had a dream. Wake up and he's like really,
like it's six o two and I'm like, well, I
had a dream, and I think we should do it
as I like, sometimes things come to me. And then
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also just balancing time with children because we're also parents.
The challenges making sure that work or conversations about work
don't overpower conversations about us or time about us. We
have to literally our date nights every Friday night.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Like we you know, we ate night regularly.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Who cannot yes, And that is through counseling, we do,
you know, therapy, marriage counseling, all that is something.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Not to be ashamed of.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
We talk about things because we want to make sure
we stay fresh up.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Here with my wife.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Oh my gosh, she got to be a strong lady.
I'm gonna pay with my wife. But you know you
I love about to is that like if he if
he hits me, he'll be like, you know what Literari
just had when you just had the baby. She needs
some girl time, Like why don't you come over, I'll
go handle this and you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Know you guys, And he's such an orchestra.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, because he won't even tell her, he'll know.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You know, I didn't even know my fortieth birthday. I
don't even know it was gonna be on a boat.
And I was like, why aren't tell me? I gotta
war flats.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I'm in im like a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I mean he's just like, yeah, we going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But he said, get yet next thing? You know, you
on a boat.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean literally, I am blessed. You deserve that, thank
you as we all do.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Right, so everybody don't, but you deserve.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
See, this is what I love about you.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
She like, everybody don't so many chicks out here, I
mean some of these girls out here y'all need y'all
need to work on yourselves and maybe that's why you
don't have what you have.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And lastly, I want to talk about you know, you
talk about being from New Jersey, Starns, Stairens, and I
know there's things that you want to do where you're from,
you know, and giving back to that because that did
shape who you are today, even though we love that
Nataria's a Brooklyn girl right now, but your Easterns girl
at heart.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I am.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So, what are some things that you have you know,
planned or I want to actually manifest.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, one of the things that I really want to
do through my foundation, the Jury's Dreamers Foundation, is really
I want to do a workshop where basically like a
summer camp that has not been realized yet, but that's
what I really want to do and actually bring all
the inner city kids from East rs from Nework, you know,
because I'm always in Jersey and be like at the forefront,
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bring some celebrity guests in like every week or something
to do a summer camp workshop where if you want
to do the arts, let's say you want to sing,
Let's say you want to do radio, let's say you know,
I bring y'all like, come and do a talk back
with these kids from you know ages maybe like eight
to eighteen or something like a large group of young people.
So if in the summer they get a release and
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they get the chance not to think about schoolwork so
much the pressure, they can actually think about what their
careers because nowadays ever was just like testing standardized past
this go to school, go to college, which is great,
and I did it all, but I knew I wanted
a career.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Not a job.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I think helping drive these young people any starringe
in York and in where I'm from get to that point.
Other things that I've done is like, you know what
I did during the pandemic, the feeding feeding people who
don't have enough food, working with other black owned businesses
that can help support people who are in need. And
that's why I chose five businesses in my community and
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gave them money to feed people in their families.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
During the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, it was called nentary feeds. So more stuff like that,
But I want to partner with different you know, brands
and get more support because I did that on my
own and you know, I'm Tasha.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But I ain't.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You got to get people to like come, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I need support. I cannot do.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
One woman is not as powerful as ten, and one
man is not as powerful.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
People are also looking for places like they have funding available, yeah,
to be able to tap into that where they know
they could trust you to exactly execute. Yeah, and so
that that would be great.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And you know, I'm gonna talk to you to the
break and figure out who I can call, because let
me tell you, I know how to get the money.
She knows how to get the funding. She knows how
to get the bag. She has seventeen businesses. I love
the coffee, by the way, I support, I have so
much stuff at my house. It's literally like, oh, this
is Angelie because we are way up and you are
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going way up.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I remember. No, I'm really like seriously being for real. No,
I mean I would love to do that. No, I
just I just have.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Seen the journey and like I said to me, no,
your journey and getting to this and this is my
first time on way up, so I had to say,
it is watching you set out a plan like I'm
about to do this, I'm gonna do this, and you
actually did it, and girl, I'm so proud of you.
I am so happy for you.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Listen, and at some point we're gonna celebrate you at
my house. She was there before my house. Her house
is gorgeous demode. So we came. They had a surprise
birthday dinner for me and Ny in the house and.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was like it was cold, it was a little dark,
and I was like, this is how you know I
love this girl.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
In this dark house talking about happy birthday. But we outside.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
The movie. It kind of was that might be a
good one.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Let's write that, yes, says to entertainment, and then you
come out and do the exorcism.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Mister Pree.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
We got a movie we're producing well honestly, thank you
so much, and abducted it in HBCU A Black Girl
Missing Movie July twentieth on Lifetime.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Make sure you guys watch it. This is my girl
starring in it. As Ellen, such like your character already
like taking care of somebody.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I can't help myself.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I just be like, I think I'm born to be
a mother, born to be a nurturer.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Born you know how some people.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You could just tell some people out here, I'll be like, yeah,
this ain't for you.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's not your path. And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But for me, in all seriousness, a movie like Abducted
does align with my spirit and who I am. I'm
also like a Christian believer, like I love God and
I want to show people you can do positive things.
Everything you do doesn't have to be risque, everything doesn't
have to be you know, oh, what's hot on the
gram and the social media. Just do something that actually
empowers and hopefully changes lives. And that's really my purpose
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in this world.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
All right, well, I love it. I love Natory.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Thank you both of y'all. Thank y'all for having me.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That's fun naterry Not and Lewis, Ladies and gentlemen
What's up his way up with Angela. Yeah, I'm here,
Mayo's here, right, and the Terry not in Lewis is here.
Don't forget to Lewis, so use my married name.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I've married.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Now we definitely got to note like and make sure
you remember the Lewis part. Okay, thank you, thank you,
which we had to. How do you feel about you're
about to be a grandmother possibly?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my gosh, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Everybody has been hitting me up a grandmother in TV.
Let's get on because no literally they've been like, so,
you're gonna be the youngest grandma on TV and the
baddest one.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Okay, Katasha is you know?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But I just realized, you know, him and Dane they're
about to When I saw that, I was like, Lord Jesus,
now I gotta deal with you having a baby.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now I have a character. But like that though, Tasha
might be like.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I mean, I'm very maternal, and I think Tasha has
always been a good mother, that's one thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
She would probably take well, I mean, she's had her moments.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Kids in the Yeah, let's explore that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, Well, I mean I just mean just well, good
is dependent on what your lifestyle is. But I'm a
good ass the right way to do the wrong things,
and at least I protect my kids. If you're going
to be doing criminal things, at least do it correctly, right, Like,
go kick your father right now that I did not
want you. I want to put that on record. Tasha
(01:24):
tried to stop him, but I just got there a
minute too late.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But yeah, So and before we get into this new
movie Abducted at an HPCU, a Black Girl Missing movie,
just we got to tie up some things with Ghosts first,
because it's been ten years and years, yes, decade, Like
it hasn't been that long.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, that's what fans keep saying to me. They were like,
So when the next week coming out with I'm like,
we're ending a show that went on for an entire decade,
Like the cultures forever changed. People had power party, Tasha
became like I mean, people dressed up at Tasha and
Ghost on Halloween. Yeah, it was a thing, and it's
(02:04):
so much you know, so many people that really loved
and committed to this show.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So I just feel like blessed that I lived.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You know, I said, literally everywhere, especially in Brooklyn. I mean,
I'm in Brooklyn and they just be like what. Sometimes
they just hit me war up tash and I'd be
like shout, oh okay, so I'm notary, but okay yeah.
And then I realized, like, I'll take it because it's
loved so embedded, and think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
In real life. You know, I had two kids, got married. Yeah,
while all that was going on.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So much life has happened in ten years. I was
a single woman. I did not have any children, and
now I have all that and you know home. I
just feel blessed because, honestly, the show gave me agency
as a female, as a woman starting my own you know,
production company now like I'm directed. I just feel like
it gave me a space to be more independent, and
(02:59):
I was when I started Power. I was a nervous
little girl, to be honest, and then having children, becoming
a mother and also a wife, gave me a chance
to see like, oh no, I'm strong enough, I can
do this and I don't have to be afraid. I
can just be myself. And I think that's now what
I'm finally doing at forty.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yes, please, you started from music, I did.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know a lot of people sometimes forget that a
lot of people do.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What was acting always on your agenda?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Always really always as a child, I knew. I literally
used to tell my friends and I remember in third
grade we had like a school play. I was Dorothy
and the Whiz and I was like yeah, and I
saw the Bodyguard and I remember I was like, that's
going to be me. Whitney Houston was my inspiration. I
always knew that music is also a vehicle to tell stories.
(03:46):
So if you can do music and singing and all that,
I love music, I was like, okay, I can be
an actress. So singing and acting was always on the agenda.
Now the producing and directing was something I discovered over time.
But I knew that this was my purpose and calling.
So I'm just like, thank god I got to.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Do it, I know. I mean, look at how long
you've been in this business too.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, that's a whole you think ten years a long
time for power. Do y'all know how long Nauri naw
and Lewis has been in this business? Like twenty four years,
twenty four. I got a record deal with Three of
W in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's actually it's twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So at the end of this year, like right at
the top of twenty twenty five, it's gonna be my
twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Crazy huge.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I've been through a lot, kicked out a girl group,
came back, went to college Pollege, so I've been through
a whole Like.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
With that group, it could have been over after that. No,
it really could have could have like that could have
been there. That took some time, that story, but look
at how you've came back even stronger.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I'm from Jersey. We don't play these games. I'm
from Eastern shoutout to Jersey. But at the end of
the day, the bounce back is because I was raised
that way my mother, my father, my father and rest
in peace, and the way I was raised honestly like
changed I think my life because if I didn't have
that support and that infrastructure from a Caribbean dad and
(05:05):
a mother from the South to tell me like your
dreams are real and you can do anything. I don't
know if I would still be here. I could have
been like depressed and on drugs or something after three
w but they told me, you know what, after I
got kicked out, they were like, it's okay, You're gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
There's so much more you can do.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And you know, I love how you can talk about
things that happened back then now and not feel the
emotion that you felt because think about at first, it's
so hard to be like I was kicked out. Even
saying that is not an easy thing when it's.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know what, that's true.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I don't think I used to because we've interviewed so
many times before, and now it's like I was like
I got get a group, Thank y'all.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It was meant to be at the time.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Sometimes you can't see the wing over those bumps and
not knowing that this is a part of the journey.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeahture something that needed to happen so you could get
someone else a.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Men to that, And now I'm like cool with Adrian.
I feel like to your point, I'm just cool with Adrian.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'm not even a girl by replaced. They tried, they tried.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I don't even know some of the iterations.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, I was like it was the end of that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But that is just a lesson for everybody listening. You know,
sometimes things can happen and it could feel like that's
the end, the right but to see, like how when
you reflect years later. And that's why I always say
when things are going bad, I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna
get through this. It's okay to like deal with that
at that time, but know that it's gonna get better later.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And you actually, yeah, and if you didn't go through that,
even for you and your career and your life, like
I know, both of y'all like on and off this,
you know, the microphone. It's interesting to see people reinvent themselves.
Remember that you have the power to reinvent, reincarnate, come back.
It's like you just have to use your creative, you know,
(06:56):
inner strength and say okay. Because a lot of people,
even with notories, they was like, how are you gonna
play Little Kim? You the girl from their w And
then I did it. And then after little Kim is like,
how are you gonna be taucha? No, I did it,
like and and you know, I just think you have
to just continue you look at your career. I mean,
he was saying notorious with me people a little fun
fact he was in a movie.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Fun fact.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'll never forget that. And every I mean it's everybody
in the streets.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
We was in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It was like one of my first scenes is little
Kim like doing a battle and I was like, oh
shoot this main o And I had so much respect
for you then, so big ups you for again continue
to reinvent and recreate your career.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, this is my guy right here. Let's get into
this abduct. And also I do want to say condolence
is because thank you. I know your father recently passed amazing, Like,
first of all, I've got a chance to hang out
with your dad is amazing, and you're so close to
your family and I do feel like that does attribute
a lot to the strength and perseverance and the discipline
(07:57):
that you have. Thank you, not to them for doing
such a great job.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Thank you the naught in the Nawton legacy.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And he got to see, you know, come to the wedding.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
My dad was so happy to walk me down the aisle.
Like all the things that a father wants to do,
he did it. My child was born, both of them,
like I you know, he may not be here in
physical but he's with me every single day in spirits,
So thank.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You, And I know he loves seeing too. Take care
of you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The wait Oh yeah, that's why when he handed me over,
he was like you my daughter.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, but he knew that too was the perfect husband
for me.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Not the one, not the two, but two. Hey, hey,
all right, let's talk about abducted it in HBCU. Yes,
Girl Missing movie. I did have a chance to watching
MANA was watching. Yeah, take the screen like this morning,
so oh did you?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I can't wait for people to see this.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I haven't and I'm literally like gonna watch it with
the fans, So everybody pull up. I might do a
little screening party on Saturday, July twentieth. I'm gonna talk
to you and figure out where we can do it
in Brooklyn, and we should do like a little screen
because I want people to I want to watch it
with the fans for the first time on Lifetime.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Make sure y'all tune in on There a.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Lot of reasons it's important, even though because I know
a first man, it was like, is this a true story?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's but it's based on true events for really, because
it happens, It happens, it has happened in different ways.
Black girls go missing every day, multiple times a day.
But particularly what was interesting about this is that they
are targeting some you know, people are targeting young women
on HBCUs or on campuses of colleges, and then we
(09:31):
just assume, oh, you know, she probably just ran away
or she just decided to drop out of school. Like
when it's a black girl, we suddenly discard them or
just don't even put the same resources behind looking for them.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And that's unacceptable, even the way that media approaches it. Yeah,
and of course it's a tragedy when any any girl
goes missing, any young girl goes missing. But there is
certainly a difference in when a young white girl is
missing then when a young black girl is missing. Everbody
knows that the longer it takes for them to actually,
you know, decide, because sometimes they won't even say a
(10:05):
person is missing. They're like, well, we have to wait.
Let's see if she ran away, let's see if she's
with her boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, and how long do we wait?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like what are those The longer you wait, the worst
the outcome could potentially.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Be exactly Well, that's why you know this movie and
what Lifetime is doing. And Garcel Bouvet, who executive produced it,
this is actually the second a black girl missing story,
so this is not a new topic, but Lifetime has
really made it a point to bring attention to it
in a way. We're going to do a series of films.
And when they asked me to start in this and
(10:36):
I remember reading it and I was like, you know,
I need to do this because a I play the
school advisor and counselor who actually finds this young girl.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I go out and basically save her.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But we need to show that more people need to
get involved, even if it's not your immediate family. Like
if you see something, say something, if you know something
looks sketchy, don't be afraid to speak up. I mean
within reason obviously, you know, be safe out here. People
don't say Tasha told me to do it. But abducted
is a real dive into an issue in a topic
that is happening, and we have to do better at
(11:10):
saving these young girls, particularly black girls who go missing.
Because it's crazy the numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
What did you learn from this? Brol too, because you
know it's scary. Also, you have a daughter. I do,
And so for anybody that you know has we all
have young girls who are close to us, whether it's family,
whether it's not, whatever type of profession that we're in.
What are some things that you learned?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I learned actually statistically, well, first off, I didn't know
that so much of this is happening like this the
honestly the movie dives into sex trafficking, right and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I didn't know, and even me and two were talking
about this. My husband like, dang, is this really like
it's going down? But apparently it's really really going down,
And obviously in many other households this has become a
thing and it's happening the discussion. But the fact that
thirty six percent of missing girls are black girls, but
only fourteen percent of the population are black women or
(12:05):
black girls, it's crazy, like, how do we make up
almost forty percent? And that was something I learned, and
also learning how the process of luring these girls, like
I didn't know, they actually mold and groomed them into
trafficking and how to behave and selling their bodies and
they have no choice. So that was something I learned
(12:28):
through just really reading the script and doing this movie
with the director Delmar Washington. He directed it, and it
was beautiful because I was like, Okay, we're telling a
true story from real facts, even though the story obviously
is fictionalized and written but the problem is this isn't
a fiction subject subject.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So I learned a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So those are some of the things I learned in
the proportions of how many stay missing and go unfound
compared to their white counterparts.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
What I'm glad that you've talked about is also the
grooming aspect. I think sometimes people can see women like
on the streets selling their bodies or escorts or whatever
and think that they chose.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, like that's just what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh yeah, she's just a ho. She's just this, she's
just that. And the truth is a lot of times,
like when you watch this, you'll see what can happen
to bring someone to that point where they feel like
they're trapped in a situation so they have to do
it rugged, which does happen right where yep, and forced
into it because sometimes people think, if she want to
do that, let do it, like yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So they almost blame you.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well, that's her fault, is she always dressed in a
certain way or she too Like your body is not
a weapon. You shouldn't be you know, it shouldn't be
used against you who you are. Your blackness should not
be a scar or tool to say, well, she's just
another black girl. They're not gonna care, like, let's not
do that, but let's actually defend and stand up for
these young girls.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It feels like part of your agenda now is also
to make sure you do work that's important and impactful.
So can we talk about that?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And Julie gets me, y'all, this is my real friend.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
We be having carry go and jerk chicken at the
grill in real life. Shout out to negrills. No, but seriously,
I want to do things that matter. So whether and
people always asking when you go to music again, when
are you gonna do? I want to do the things
that if it doesn't matter, if it doesn't feel purposeful,
it doesn't feel intentional, I'm probably not gonna do it.
I'm not just like, oh, I'm gonna put something out
(14:21):
just to say I can sing it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
People know.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
If you know I could sing cool. If you don't,
that's okay. You'll find out whether I do a musical.
I might be on Broadway next spring.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I could be.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Doing you know, a television I could be hosting. It
could be another film. I can direct this story and
not even starring it. I don't want people to only
attach me to the things that they think are salacious
or sexy. Obviously power is beautiful, but now it's time
to do things that are powerful. In when you watch it,
you will feel either empowered, you'll feel inspired, you will
(14:51):
feel like I gotta do something with conviction. And those
are the things like that. I'm doing another project soon
and we'll talk about it. But it's just things like
know about homelessness and just things that are real. Abortion,
I want to tackle real issues. I directed my first
short I think I was telling about it called three
through three, and I completed this short about a young
girl struggling with the mental health aspect of an abortion
(15:15):
just twenty minutes. It's a short film. I directed it,
I wrote it, and you know, I just speak to.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
For a moment on that direct it and wrote it.
Yes'm and produced it with my husband.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
When I tell you I love this like this is
this is this is notori. This is powerful.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh thank you girl. This is the real powers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
No, shout out to Take Too Entertainment. That's our production company.
Take To Entertainment produced three to three. So again it's
just talking about and similar to abducted and an HBCU
a subject that people would be afraid, like, why would
you do your first short film about a young girl
with abortion? Burgundy Baker stars in it. From the shy
shout out to Burgundy, She's so good in this. John
(16:00):
Clarence Stewart, who's in p Valley, I got a great
Vanessael Callaway.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I mean I just called my.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Friends and they answered and yes, yeah, May and I
might be calling you, like come through with my next film,
you know, because you know you got the look.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You're looking good these days. I heard you are ready
to talk about he be working out. I see you,
may know, I see you. You got your rest.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You know, he looks well rested.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You should do for him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He should do a movie about being a one woman
man based on fiction Priest horrible.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You know how want to let me think about you?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You got the gloves on everything.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I'm like the one woman man idea. Yeah, we could
get one woman practice.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm trying to practice that in real life.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Okay, so then maybe yeah, So I'm gonna get you.
I'm gonna work.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We're gonna get your acting coach, so you can let's go.
All right, I'm ready for you.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Out with too so you could.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, that's when you come over, come to the cookout.
What it's like.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I got some people for you where life can be
when like look at you into having your production companies together,
and I know he's always pushing you, you know, to
go further. Y'all push each other, we do. How is
it working with your husband?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Oh my gosh, it's good.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And also sometimes it can be annoying sometimes at night
in bed, like I know he's probably annoyed with me.
I'll be talking a lot, but I'll be like, Babe,
I had this idea. Sometimes I wake up like, babe,
I had a dream. Wake up and he's like really,
like it's six o two and I'm like, well, I
had a dream, and I think we should do it
as I like, sometimes things come to me. And then
(17:37):
also just balancing time with children because we're also parents.
The challenges making sure that work or conversations about work
don't overpower conversations about us or time about us. We
have to literally our date nights every Friday night.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Like we you know, we ate night regularly.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Who cannot yes, And that is through counseling, we do,
you know, therapy, marriage counseling, all that is something.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Not to be ashamed of.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
We talk about things because we want to make sure
we stay fresh up.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Here with my wife.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Oh my gosh, she got to be a strong lady.
I'm gonna pay with my wife. But you know you
I love about to is that like if he if
he hits me, he'll be like, you know what Literari
just had when you just had the baby. She needs
some girl time, Like why don't you come over, I'll
go handle this and you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Know you guys, And he's such an orchestra.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, because he won't even tell her, he'll know.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You know, I didn't even know my fortieth birthday. I
don't even know it was gonna be on a boat.
And I was like, why aren't tell me? I gotta
war flats.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I'm in im like a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I mean he's just like, yeah, we going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But he said, get yet next thing? You know, you
on a boat.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean literally, I am blessed. You deserve that, thank
you as we all do.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Right, so everybody don't, but you deserve.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
See, this is what I love about you.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
She like, everybody don't so many chicks out here, I
mean some of these girls out here y'all need y'all
need to work on yourselves and maybe that's why you
don't have what you have.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And lastly, I want to talk about you know, you
talk about being from New Jersey, Starns, Stairens, and I
know there's things that you want to do where you're from,
you know, and giving back to that because that did
shape who you are today, even though we love that
Nataria's a Brooklyn girl right now, but your Easterns girl
at heart.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I am.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So, what are some things that you have you know,
planned or I want to actually manifest.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, one of the things that I really want to
do through my foundation, the Jury's Dreamers Foundation, is really
I want to do a workshop where basically like a
summer camp that has not been realized yet, but that's
what I really want to do and actually bring all
the inner city kids from East rs from Nework, you know,
because I'm always in Jersey and be like at the forefront,
(19:48):
bring some celebrity guests in like every week or something
to do a summer camp workshop where if you want
to do the arts, let's say you want to sing,
Let's say you want to do radio, let's say you know,
I bring y'all like, come and do a talk back
with these kids from you know ages maybe like eight
to eighteen or something like a large group of young people.
So if in the summer they get a release and
(20:10):
they get the chance not to think about schoolwork so
much the pressure, they can actually think about what their
careers because nowadays ever was just like testing standardized past
this go to school, go to college, which is great,
and I did it all, but I knew I wanted
a career.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Not a job.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I think helping drive these young people any starringe
in York and in where I'm from get to that point.
Other things that I've done is like, you know what
I did during the pandemic, the feeding feeding people who
don't have enough food, working with other black owned businesses
that can help support people who are in need. And
that's why I chose five businesses in my community and
(20:48):
gave them money to feed people in their families.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
During the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, it was called nentary feeds. So more stuff like that,
But I want to partner with different you know, brands
and get more support because I did that on my
own and you know, I'm Tasha.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But I ain't.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You got to get people to like come, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I need support. I cannot do.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
One woman is not as powerful as ten, and one
man is not as powerful.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
People are also looking for places like they have funding available, yeah,
to be able to tap into that where they know
they could trust you to exactly execute. Yeah, and so
that that would be great.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And you know, I'm gonna talk to you to the
break and figure out who I can call, because let
me tell you, I know how to get the money.
She knows how to get the funding. She knows how
to get the bag. She has seventeen businesses. I love
the coffee, by the way, I support, I have so
much stuff at my house. It's literally like, oh, this
is Angelie because we are way up and you are
(21:45):
going way up.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I remember. No, I'm really like seriously being for real. No,
I mean I would love to do that. No, I
just I just have.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Seen the journey and like I said to me, no,
your journey and getting to this and this is my
first time on way up, so I had to say,
it is watching you set out a plan like I'm
about to do this, I'm gonna do this, and you
actually did it, and girl, I'm so proud of you.
I am so happy for you.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Listen, and at some point we're gonna celebrate you at
my house. She was there before my house. Her house
is gorgeous demode. So we came. They had a surprise
birthday dinner for me and Ny in the house and.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was like it was cold, it was a little dark,
and I was like, this is how you know I
love this girl.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
In this dark house talking about happy birthday. But we outside.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
The movie. It kind of was that might be a
good one.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Let's write that, yes, says to entertainment, and then you
come out and do the exorcism.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Mister Pree.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
We got a movie we're producing well honestly, thank you
so much, and abducted it in HBCU A Black Girl
Missing Movie July twentieth on Lifetime.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Make sure you guys watch it. This is my girl
starring in it. As Ellen, such like your character already
like taking care of somebody.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I can't help myself.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I just be like, I think I'm born to be
a mother, born to be a nurturer.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Born you know how some people.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You could just tell some people out here, I'll be like, yeah,
this ain't for you.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's not your path. And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But for me, in all seriousness, a movie like Abducted
does align with my spirit and who I am. I'm
also like a Christian believer, like I love God and
I want to show people you can do positive things.
Everything you do doesn't have to be risque, everything doesn't
have to be you know, oh, what's hot on the
gram and the social media. Just do something that actually
empowers and hopefully changes lives. And that's really my purpose
(23:41):
in this world.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
All right, well, I love it. I love Natory.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Thank you both of y'all. Thank y'all for having me.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That's fun naterry Not and Lewis, Ladies and gentlemen
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